I’m mesmerized by TV shows uncovering lost cities, solving age-old mysteries, looking into abandoned properties and generally giving me one more excuse to lounge on the couch instead of writing this column.
It’s all big stuff: How the universe works. Why ancient civilizations disappeared. Whether rich people in the olden days had gold toilets like they do today.
But I want something that solves the mysteries of the common man and the everyday Joe. You know, the around-the-house stuff and the matter-of-fact mysteries that we all deal with. These may not be great and complex, but they are just as confounding and worth solving. I would like to see a show that looks at:
• Why are stickers impossible to remove? Have you noticed this? How awful they’ve become? I bought a hanging plastic basket to put a porch fern in and spent more time trying to get the sticker off the outside than actually planting the fern. The irony was the sticker proclaimed that this was a “decorative basket,” which would have been true if not for the huge, un-decorative gob of glue and torn paper left in plain view. It now plainly reads “… rat bask … ,” which sounds like a heavy metal band or something I shouldn’t be allowed to print in a family newspaper.